Our Mudlarking finds go on DISPLAY in a Victorian museum!
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2023
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SI, I watched you on bargain hunt today series 43 episode 8....(in Australia). i was so excited about it, and you wasn't wearing a hat !!!!... profit of £40£? I've recorded it
I write really long comments and I hope you don’t mind, but when I leave a comment, it’s like I’m talking or sharing with you or the people commenting as well. If you find it too much just let me know and I’ll cut it down next time. Great video!!
I’m from Burnley. Burnley was famous for Cotton Weaving which is why there’s a shuttle on the bottle
Great fact !🎉🎉🎉🎉
And proud of it too so they were👍🏻
Also has breweries one still going Moorhouse’s on Accrington rd the other main work was coal mining I’ve some plans of Bank hall pit top where my grand father worked dads side. My grandad on mums side helped with the rebuild of Steam engine at queen street mill which is not far from where I live now
Yeah I'd imagine half the town was employed in the business in one way or another, so it would make sense to associate with the local workers as a marketing opportunity
I'm from Paisley in Scotland , also of proud weaving and textile heritage 💪👍
The volunteers have done so much work in just 5 years! The Fort is in wonderful hands. Thank you Si, this was a very enjoyable and interesting video!
I can vouch for that. Cheers Mudlover!👍🏻🐾🧡
I agree, can you imagine the amount of digging that took? It's not like they can just bring a backhoe in there and go to town. They had to use small equipment and sheovels.
Great mudlarking spot. I would love to be able to join you on a hunt. I've always loved going through old dumps at house places you find in the woods. So much history. Loved the tour as well.
We should never lose our history good or bad 🇬🇧🏴
Agreed!
Am a 76 yo granny in the USA...I just love your videos...I learn so many interesting things. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and keep up the great job you are doing..!!❤❤
Aw thanks so much!👍🏻🐾🧡
Love the "Bird Soap Dish". Would be great for holding change to jewelry. 😊 I would call is "Sammy the Seagull ".
Great shout!
I'll be saving all my broken Victorian pottery and glass after watching your artistry.
The bottle dump is a whole treasure in itself, with so much more to find .. the ginger jars are just so lovely, all the bottles .. and I think your birdie is a kingfisher.
The Fort.. wow.. so much work those guys have done, amazing dedication to restoring a part of our history. You too Simon, your finds really bring a tangible sense of the past. Many thanks 💚
Thanks so much👍🏻🐾🧡
Direct connection between Weaving and drink - the more you drink, the more you weave lol
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I love how the community has come together for a passion project with the fort. Really Nice to see something so important restored.
Agreed! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Love those ginger jars. Thanks for the great fort tour Si.👍🏼
Cheers Mudlover!👍🏻🐾🧡
Even your doves have better mudlarking opportunities than we do in the states😮. Than you for posting!
Excellent video Si. Thanks very much 👍🏻 Those responsible for the restoration of Slough Fort should be very proud of themselves. 🏆
Agreed!👍🏻🐾🧡
That creek, what a treasure trove. The Slough Fort was interesting. We have some forts, with a similar look on the coast. So many lovely finds, the little bird ashtray, ginger jar and the many bottles. Good start to a Sunday! Thank you!
Cheers Beth! 👍🏻🐾🧡
That bird on the soap dish is almost certainly a mud lark.
I had to smile when the Liqufruta bottle turned up.
Many was the times I had to run down to the chemist shop and give Mr Farthing a note from my mam and two shillings for a bottle of it, I'd be 7 then, 61 years ago.
My Dad suffered from chronich coal dust inhalation (pneumoconiosis) and Liqufruta kept him going until he gave out at 64 yrs old, working since he was 14 and never drew a penny pension.
I liked this one, loved the fort visit, I might even go next year.
Cheers Ian. Lovely story despite your Dad being taken too soon. Respect 👍🏻🐾🧡
Thanks for another great episode! I hope you go back to that location - there were so many treasures! Colin was so passionate about the fort. Without people like him, we'd lose our history.
Spot on comment!!
This was so interesting. The history and it's lack of importance over time is sad. I'm so happy this group is restoring this window into the past. Thank you for sharing! ❤🇺🇸
When you said “ we love a green bottle “ I started singing “Ten green bottles hanging on the wall”!!😂 I haven’t thought of that for years!!
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Omg, how awesomely cool was that! I can't wait for you and Mark to go back to that area, and I'm sending a bunch of kisses for Mark's poor face. 😘😘😘😘😘
Aw cheers Kitty👍🏻🐾🧡
Ty im All good now
Amazing place! Surely, hoping you gents will return!
Enjoying the tour of the fort!
Yes we will go back!!
@@Sifinds Lokking foreard!
Ooow, loved ALL of that! Burnley was one of the major towns in the Lancashire cotton weaving trade, hence the shuttle on the bottle. The raw cotton was shipped into Liverpool and transported by canal or river to nearby towns to be processed.
My Nan collected ginger jars, hers had covers (lids). The tiny Bovril was the cutest thing ever. Thanks Simon
Cheers Jane! 👍🏻🐾🧡
“The Founder” - great flick! 👍🏻
Right!
Your videos are always a treat. I enjoyed the tour around the fort (something a bit different) and the tour guide was very good - nice and clear and concise. What an impressive amount of work the volunteers have done, I particularly likes the before and after comparisons. Hope you'll do a return visit in a couple of years for an update.
Looking forward to our next trip x
Me too!!!
Thank you for the tour - most interesting and well done to the amazing volunteers.
I was in school 80s and into mid 90s and they were still using desks with ink wells and dozens of names carved 😮lol
I think I remember them too. No inkwells in them though
Hey, the bird in the dish project was great! I would suggest the bird represented is a kingfisher, based on the outsized, strong beak and flashes of blue on the wing. Really enjoy your vids.
Great shout! Thanks so much
Poor Mark looks light he was in a fight, hope he is all healed by now. The tour of the fort museum was fun and quite interesting, they're doing a LOT of work to restore it! 😻
Yes they have put a lot of hard work in to it
I'm All good ty all mended now.
I'm glad you give this a little duck a new life 👍
Oh my gosh Si! I have to fix a handle on a lid that's round and I wasn't sure how I was going to make it work and now I know! Thank you so much! That wire trick will really come in handy
I really enjoyed the museum. Such an incredible history. Thank you for the wonderful mudlark. Cheers.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That place could spoil you for anywhere else! The Victorian fort is amazing.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That was absolutely fascinating! I’ve never heard of mudlarking before but that’s probably because I’m Scottish. I remember that toilet paper from my school days, it was horrible stuff, along with the pink carbolic soap! Thanks Si, that took me on a trip down memory lane 😊
Thanks for joining us, you have a treat in store looking back through my old videos!
Great videos, many thanks.
Wow that’s incredibly generous thank you so much! 👍🏻🐾🧡🧡🧡
You're welcome! You're channel is my husband's favourite and he enjoys watching your videos on our daughter's account during the day while he's incapacitated at home atm - so thanks for keeping him quite for hours!!!
@@user-fj5lj8wd2t I wish him all the best. Stay blessed 🧡🧡🧡
How cool! Such history and treasures your county has!
Oh I just love touring places without leaving my couch! Lol TY Si this was great!❤
Haha. Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻🐾🧡
Thank you for the mudlarking and the tour very interesting it is important to preserve history
I agree. Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Pareidolia (seeing faces, objects & patterns in random things)
i'd be so scared of stepping on great things and breaking them
The mud projects things well👍🏻🐾🧡
Pretty sure Green and Smith made ginger beer and maybe other non alcoholic drinks- maybe some connection with the Temperance movement to keep the workers and family supporting adults away from beer and spirits after work, and fit to work next day.
Yes you’re right. They made the lot, although not much info on the internet
@@Sifinds New Hall Street still exists, I’ve looked through the newspaper archives for Green and Smiths but like you I didn’t find much extra info
Unbelievable to see you picking up finds & the next minute the tide is back in & water everywhere. That Fort was amazing. Thanks for taking us along for the tour!
Yes time and tide wait for no man. Cheers Mudlover!👍🏻🐾🧡
I'm learning so much from following your adventures. It's also a pleasure recalling little day to day items from my childhood? No not in Victorian times, although my Dad did call himself the last of the Victorians. Lol I'm thinking of doing a non mudlark display of similar domestic items which I 've still got hanging around somewhere - the 1950s medecines and the Windolene bottle proudly advertising that it contained DDT!
I'm so glad the work you, Nicola and your fellow mudlarkers are doing is being recognised. I wonder if in a previous incarnation you were those river urchins striving to stay alive by searching for coal and scraps. I'm too old for all this scrabbling about in the muck although the river Isle took a big chunk out of my garden last week- scary. Only the French could call a river an island. Lol.thank uou for being you.
That's very kind of you to say - please share the videos - every little helps - thanks!
That creek is amazing, Simon! And the Slough Fort, which I was iffy about, was also awesome. Someone needs to do the same restoration to Hoo Fort (and its counterpart). Really interesting! I particularly like that Victorian Christmas-light glass; it makes a marvelous tea-light.
Cheers Kenneth, yes that would be great if they did!
Looking forward to more.😘
Cheers Mudlover!👍🏻🐾🧡
That plain Jane has designs on it. I see flowers and a blue color design. It's pretty.
Wow!! Thanks for sharing, well done on the upcycle!
Cheers Scott!👍🏻🐾🧡
Thank you all for a wonderful video; the finds and tour are amazing.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
It's good to see that some of your finds have found themselves back where they used to be (-ish).
Your little bird could be from Latvia. Some little pieces like that ashtray came out in the 1930s from the Jessen factory in Riga.
I wish we could spend all our time in museums! Fascinating history!
May be out with Goldie my Duck in Rochester ill try to watch m8.
Green poison bottles are one of my absolute dream find. I would absolutely love to mudlark there with you. The fort was amazing, what an incredible restoration job their doing.
Hello mate,
I thought I’d drop by and watch..looking forward to seeing what you find
Hiya matey!
Absolutely brilliant. What a great mudlarking location & how super is it to see a museum where some of the finds are going to, superb 👏🏼
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That fort is incredible! Reminds me a lot of Ft. Moultrie at Sullivan’s Island, SC. Edgar Allen Poe was once stationed there.
Yes we are FORTunate to be able to see how it's being saved
Looks like a king Fisher bird. Excellent work Simon!❤
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Simply awesome video, really enjoyed watching the beautiful fort too
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ♥️
Cheers Sam!👍🏻🐾🧡
Loving those bottles…
The fairylight is mulberry glass. Doctors and health workers used to advise pregnant women drink a bottle of Mackeson's every day. 😁
You really have a way of breathing new life into rejectamenta...that bird piece revived beautifully!
Cheers Mudlover👍🏻🐾🧡
Thanks for the history of the finds & the fort. Those ginger jars are beauties.
(From Connecticut in the US)
waterbury ct here...where are you from?
@@lesliel9791 Windsor!
@@lesliel9791 got into this 2020. Hoping to go to the next Exhibition in London next Sept & take the education tour. We shall see!
maybe next spring we could mudlark along the naugatuck river@@LeaC-lw8xl
@@lesliel9791 yes! I would do that! Permit or permission needed?
❤ awesome job on the ashtray I love that you saved it😊
Cheers Gaye👍🏻🐾🧡
You are definitely on my bucket list don't be surprised if I make it over there I'm going to make you take me out to that Island
Awww, I love the soapdish duck! That turned out really cute, Si. 🧼🦆
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Maybe after a hard day of weaving you really need a drink😂
Yes I bet it’s thirsty work!
I live in Western Australia and I just saw you and your mate on BARGIN HUNT 👍
Thanks for taking us on the tour of the fort....so very interesting.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Nice haul! My favorite Michael Keaton movie is Beetlejuice!
Yes it's awesome!
Hi, just recently stumbled upon the whole “mudlarking” thing… via a video that popped up in my facebook feed… Wow! As a history nerd and lover of old things, odds & ends… I am so glad to discover this hobby / passion / lifestyle… Not exactly a great area for it where I live in the U.S., but now if I ever make it to the UK 🇬🇧… in addition to the museums, pubs, narrow boat “cruise”, I am adding mudlarking to the list. Cheers and good luck for great finds.
Welcome to the mad world of Mudlarking my friend 👍🏻🐾🧡
I am from Mid-Coast Maine USA and I loved the fort tour. Thank you!!
Wow great job with the soap dish love your finds
Cheers Dolores, I think it was an ashtray. Hence the groove
Ah yes, Marks ducks … a notorious gang of thugs known as the Peking Blinders 😵🍻
You’re ducked up mate 😂
Because they aim for the eyeballs
the creek is so packed w/potential treasure. really enjoyed the fort tour. thanx
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That mend on the Bird dish, ash tray was genius
Cheers Loril 👍🏻🐾🧡
I love that you saved the little tray
Smiling,,, huge crush on mark,, love his smile
I'll pass that on!
The Mudlark was one of my favorite books!😂
My faves are the ginger jars and faerie light. What a dream mudlark
I love those tiny ink jars and poison jars.
Your lovely lil ginger jar would make a wonderful lil lamp
I had to come back for a second watch because there’s so much treasure I couldn’t take it all in the first time! What a magical place! I dream of finding somewhere like this to explore 🥰 Thanks for taking us along to the fort too! X
Cheers Beth! It certainly is a wet dream for Mudlarks👍🏻🐾🧡
I enjoyed the museum tour. Thank you from South Carolina, USA
Another awesome adventure 👍
I think the bird on the dish was a gull and you turned it in to a kingfisher. Thanks for the wonderful video.
wow that fort is brilliant.. Finding all those treasures in the mud makes you wonder what is buried underneath, really enjoy your videos ❤
Cheers Marie👍🏻🐾🧡
Amazing history tour! Can't believe it was covered with dirt and forgotten. 🤩🤩🤩
I know criminal. We are FORTunate its being loved again
fantastic finds Englefield was my mothers side of the family what a lovely bottle find.
Si, please tell Mark I'm so sorry to see that he got hurt in his accident.
I hope you heal quickly with as little pain as possible. I enjoyed your FANTASTIC VIDEOS THANKS for sharing what a [ fantastic] bottle collecters dream place to do,some collecting
I’ll pass that on. Thanks for the kind words👍🏻🐾🧡
That cute tray, bird, which you did a great job of repairing, looks a bit like a kingfisher to me, kin to the Ozzie kookaburra. The ginger jar looks great too. Plain but very attractive. Then another ginger jar! And Sam said he sold a homing pigeon five times on eBay! I can relate to that! My husband and his brother had homing pigeons sixty or so years ago and made pocket money selling them. They sold the same pigeon four times….but three times to the SAME KID! You’d think he would have learned!!! So many wonderful finds. Loved the tree lantern and that blue pot lid of Sam’s was awesome! And if that was not enough…you took us on the wonderful tour of Slough Fort! Fascinating! Loved it fellas! Thanks for taking us along Si! You must go back to this place again, and again and again! There’s so much for you to collect. And it’s so nice that Sam (and you) donate so many artefacts to the museum. Well done!❤️😊🦘
Hi Si 👋
Alright Cory! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Isn't interesting how nature seems to bring everything back 🤔
What an amazing creek! So much lovely treasure. You did an amazing job on your remake of the kingfisher name SCOTTY. You are a very creative and talented man and I love to watch when you create. Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing. Oh and the people working on the fort have done an amazing job!!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
WOW!! Thank you so much for this trip out!!
Oh no, Mark! I hope you healed up well!
Awesome episode and upcycle, Si! I might have to put up a cheeky bid!
Cheers Lisa, you do that! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Fascinating look at Sough Fort! Thanks ever so much for sharing. And oh how I'd like to find a place like that estuary creek over here. Wow! What a treasure trove.
What a lovely restoration on the gull dish!
Cheers Arthur👍🏻🐾🧡
Some really cool finds Si, I really like those ink wells and old green poison bottles......Something random now, came home from work and had tea, sat down to watch this video (time difference here in Australia from the UK is very big) but when I switched on the tv an old episode of Bargain Hunt was on and there you were! Ha totally random lol. And you won 24 quid. I never knew you went on the show. Top work 👍
Yes that was a long time ago. Great day that was. And we won!!
That's amazing all the finds,and all the beauties
Reckon the bird looks like a wren! 🤷♀️🥰
Just tell me wren. Cheers
Another GREAT video!! I think your birdie is a ThrASHer, get it?? Aw well, I'm probably wrong, but it makes sense to me! Thanks Simon for taking me along on your outing. xx